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70 YEARS before Brown v Board of Education there was Tape v. Hurley (1885).

Discover the inspiring and often overlooked story of Mamie Tape, an 8-year-old Chinese American girl who played a pivotal role in desegregating schools in 1885, seven decades before the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education. This video dives into the struggle faced by Mamie and her determined parents, Joseph and Mary Tape, as they challenged the refusal of Principal Jennie Hurley to enroll Chinese-American children in the all-white Spring Valley Primary School in San Francisco. Explore the prevailing anti-Chinese sentiment of the era, the legal battle of Tape v. Hurley, and the lasting impact of Mamie's fight for educational equality. Let's shed light on this forgotten chapter of civil rights history and honor the remarkable courage of the Tapes (and Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month!)

Sources:

Joyce Kuo, “Excluded, Segregated, and Forgotten: A Historical View of the Discrimination of Chinese Americans in Public Schools,” 1998
Asian American Law Journal, Volume 5, Issue 1
https://lawcat.berkeley.edu/record/1116262


http://berkeleyheritage.com/essays/tape_family.html : photos
Odo, Franklin. “Letter from Mary Tape, April 8, 1885,” in The Columbia Documentary History of the Asian American Experience. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002, pages 72-73.

Newspaper Article, M. Tape, “Chinese Mother’s Letter,” Daily Alta California, April 16, 1885 (excerpt)
California Digital Newspaper Collection, University of California Riverside https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DAC18850416.2.3&e=-------en--20- -1—txt-txIN--------1885.
https://lawcat.berkeley.edu/record/1116262

https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2021/05/before-brown-v-education-there-was-tape-v-hurley/
Ngai, Mae M. “That Chinese Girl.” Chap. 4 in The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012.

Organization of American Historians. “Primary Source: Mary Tape, an Outspoken Woman.” OAH Magazine of History 15, no. 2 (Winter 2001), 17-19. Accessed May 10, 2021. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25163420.

Tape, Mary. “Letter from Mary Tape to the San Francisco Board of Education.” Daily Alta California (San Francisco), April 16, 1885.
https://www.nps.gov/people/mary-tape.htm

Thomas, Heather. “Before Brown v. Board of Education, There was Tape v. Hurley.” Library of Congress (blog). Published May 5, 2021, https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2021/05/before-brown-v-education-there-was-tape-v-hurley/.

Photograph, Mary Ethel Dismukes, Students of the only all-Chinese School in Bolivar County, Mississippi, March 29, 1938 Mississippi Department of Archives and History (Box 24, folder 11, item 12) http://www.mshistorynow.mdah.ms.gov/images/190.jpg
https://www.geneseo.edu/~esjj/Fall2005_3.html


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